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Reading at Deykin JI School

 

Children who love to read are much more likely to succeed in all subjects and achieve academic success later in life. Following on from the early phonics work, the children progress to understand and enjoy a range of high-quality texts which have been chosen based on the National Curriculum Programme of Study. Daily reading sessions provide opportunities for encouraging and embedding reading for pleasure. Similarly, whole class texts and reading books for each year group are ambitious, thought provoking and support our pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

 

Embedding a Love of Reading
 

To promote a love of reading at Deykin Avenue JI School, we use a wide range of stories, poems, rhymes, and non-fiction texts. We also:

 

  • Create class book corners which inspire and motivate
  • Have daily storytime sessions across the school
  • Celebrate reading weekly with awards in our celebration assemblies
  • Provide weekly timetabled library sessions
  • Work with Birmingham Library Services
  • Have Reading Ambassadors that promote a love of books all year round

 

Early Reading

 

All early readers study phonics daily using the Read, Write, Inc scheme. The expectation is that pupils will have successfully completed the programme by the end of the autumn term in year 2. If they do not reach this goal, additional interventions will be offered daily to accelerate their progress.

 

Accelerated Reader
 

We have recently bought into AR for KS2; each half term, a Star Reader test allows us to measure each pupil’s progress in reading and provides us with accurate data on which library books they should be reading to provide the correct level of challenge for their unique needs.

 

Lexia
 

For pupils with barriers to reading, we support in the form of daily Lexia sessions. This software intuitively baselines each child and guides them through areas for development, providing lessons when difficulties arise, which are delivered by our SEND Teaching Assistant Mrs. Kerr.


Whole Class Reading

 

In these lessons, all the children in the class are immersed in the same high-quality literature and the discussions that these texts promote. These texts could be whole books, extracts of books or short non-fiction pieces. Teaching the whole class means that all pupils can read with the teacher more often, moving faster through more texts, or longer texts, and benefiting from the teacher’s expert explanations, modelling, questioning and feedback. It enables pupils of all abilities to access more complicated texts and content.

 

Children are taught the skills of reading (outlined in the National Curriculum and the KS1 and KS2 test domains) through the use of VIPERS which were created by Rob Smith (The Literacy Shed).

 

VIPERS is an anagram to aid the recall of the 6 reading domains as part of the UK’s reading curriculum.  They are the key areas which we feel children need to know and understand in order to improve their comprehension of texts.

VIPERS stands for:

The Reading Vipers can be used by both KS1 and KS2 with a little adaption. The main difference being in the S.

Sequence – KS1

Summarise – KS2

Whole Class Reading Texts

Deykin Avenue JI School English Curriculum: Class Texts

 

Yr

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Reception

Who’s in the Loo

 

Rhymes: Incy Wincy Spider

Humpty Dumpty

 

Rhymes: Jack and Jill

 

Pardon Said the Giraffe

 

Rhymes: Mary had a little Lamb

Monstersaurus

 

Rhymes:

Row, Row, Row your boat

Supermarket Zoo

 

Rhymes:

Old Macdonald

The Bear and the Piano

 

Rhymes:

Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star

 

Year 1

A Squash and a squeeze

 

Pumpkin Soup  

 

Poetry - Scarecrow Christmas by Pie Corbett

Little Red

 

Poetry -  Monday’s Child by Mother Goose

The Colour Monster

 

Traction man

 

Poetry – acrostic – The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll

 

Dogs Don’t do Ballet

 

Year 2

Hibernation Hotel

 

 

Meerkat Mail  

 

Poetry - Christmas Haiku Pie Corbett

The Day the Crayons Quit

Dread Cat

 

Poetry - The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear

The Dark

 

Poetry - The Sound Collector by roger McGough

 

The Magic Finger

Year 3

Fantastic Mr Fox

 

 

 

The Worst Witch

 Poetry - The Twelve Days of Christmas

Jim and The Beanstalk

Poetry -  Volcano by Joshua Seigal

The diary of a Killer Cat

Spy Fox – Film Unit

 

Poetry - You’re by Sylvia Plath

 

The Night Bus Hero

Year 4

Georges Marvellous medicine

 

Poetry - Little Red by Roald Dahl

 

The lost thing by Shaun Tan

 

Poetry – The Grinch

Macbeth

 

Poetry – The Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning

Arthur and The Golden Rope

 

 

 

My name is not Refugee

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

 

Poetry - Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

Year 5

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

 

Poetry - From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Matilda  

 

Poetry - In the bleak midwinter

By Christina Rossetti

 

Beowulf

Varjak Paw

 

Poetry - Caged Bird’ by Maya Angelou

 

The Tempest  

The Ways of the Wolf

 

Poetry - The Tyger by William Blake

 

 

Year 6

Orphans of the Tide

 

Poetry - The Kraken by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Malamander

 

Poetry – Twas the night before Christmas

 

The Boy in the Tower

 

Poetry - Macavity, the Mystery Cat’ by T.S Eliot

 

The Nowhere Emporium

 

Poetry - The Highway Man by Alfred Noyes

Romeo and Juliet

 

Poetry - Life Doesn’t Frighten Me by Maya Angelou

 

Room 13

 

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